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O’Shaquie Foster and Rey Vargas (Twitter)
O’Shaquie Foster defeated Rey Vargas by unanimous determination to win the World Boxing Council super-featherweight title
O’Shaquie Foster outboxed beforehand unbeaten two-division champion Rey Vargas on the best way to a unanimous determination Saturday of their battle for the vacant World Boxing Council super-featherweight title.
Foster, 29, grabbed his likelihood in his first world title bout, stretching his successful streak to 10 in a row and taking his document to 20-2 with 11 knockouts.
“Man, it feels nice,” stated the 29-year-old Foster, whose profession was slowed by a four-month spell in jail 5 years in the past. “This journey has been loopy.”
Judges on the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, noticed it clearly for Foster, whose pace and agility left Vargas groping.
Choose Tim Cheatham scored it 117-111, Alejandro Rochin noticed it 119-109 and David Sutherland made it 116-112.
Foster stated the victory got here all the way down to “dedication and exhausting work.”
“I’ve obtained an excellent staff round me,” he stated. “Simply getting away from the distractions, getting myself mentally and bodily proper … now, , I’m on high. It’s loopy.”
Mexico’s Vargas fell to 36-1 with 22 wins inside the gap. The WBC super-bantamweight champion from 2017 to 2019, Vargas had captured the WBC featherweight title final July on the Alamodome with a cut up determination over Filipino Mark Magsayo.
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